Tax Credit Overpayments

EDM number 2148 in 2007-08, proposed by Michael Jabez Foster on 06/10/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Taxation and Working age benefits.

That this House believes that some families are experiencing excessive hardship through being required to repay tax credits after failing to finalise their award; and considers that the Government should review the statutory recovery of such overpayments and institute an appeals process so that where entitlement for the tax year can be shown, even at a later date, only recovery of a justifiable amount of overpayment should be made.

This motion has been signed by a total of 113 MPs.